The Waiting City

In The Waiting City, an Australian couple, Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and Ben (Joe Edgerton), go to Delhi to pick up an Indian child they have adopted, but due to complications they are forced to wait a number of weeks. She is a work-obsessed lawyer and he is a laid back musician and they begin to be at odds with each other. Nicely filmed, showing off the rich colour and exoticism of India, the film is itself a waiting game. While they wait, we wait. Wait for something to happen. That would be my main issue with the film: Fiona and Ben's on again-off again bickering while they wait for the child, without turning us into something new. Like a number of the other films I've seen at TIFF this year, I'm left asking, what was the journey we were taken on in this movie and what did we get out of it, what did we learn? Although I liked these characters and the situation was interesting, I wasn't fully satisfied. The journey seemed short and the learnings not all that much. (6.5/10)